“If you don’t want responsibility, don’t sit in the big chair. To be successful, you must accept full responsibility”

Sit up straight, listen and participate.

The person, the student, the athlete, all are considered equal.

Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them.

The greatest strength any human being an have is to recognize his or her own weaknesses. When you identify your weaknesses, you can begin to remedy them – or at least figure out how to work around them.

I just think they were just a team that really enjoyed the process and allowed our coaching staff to enjoy the process.

Change equals self improvement. Push yourself to places you haven’t been before.

You can’t always be the most talented person in the room. But you can be the most competitive.

Discipline is the only sure way I know to convince people to believe in themselves

Setting up a system that rewards you for meeting your goals and has penalties for failing to hit your target is just as important as putting your goals down on paper.

Discipline helps you finish a job, and finishing is what separates excellent work from average work.

Anyone can quit, but it takes a strong, committed person not to quit when times are tough.

I think you can challenge people, but you don’t want to break people down. But you’ve got to sometimes just pull them aside and say, you know, you’re OK but you could be better.

It is what it is. But, it will be what you make it.

There is not that many players that really can take over games, signed Candace Parker, I really felt like at that time that a National Championship was certainly in reach.

I’d wake up in the morning and I would think, ‘Where am I?’ I’d have to gather myself.

I want to continue to do is to help these young women be successful. You don’t just say goodbye at the end of their playing careers and end it there.

The power to destroy the world by the use of nuclear weapons is a power that cannot be used – we cannot accept the idea of such monstrous immorality.

It is no longer possible to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis upon which it is based.

Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.

Be in love with your life, every detail of it.

What interests me is the surprising enormous extent to which most people accept the fate that’s been given to them, and find some dignity.

When people told the audience that [Sam Kinison] was good, he was accepted after that.

Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.

One must accept the fact that we have only one companion in this world, a companion who accompanies us from the cradle to the grave – our own self. Get on good terms with that companion – learn to live with yourself.